Herbert Hoover was a great engineer, and a great humanitarian as well. His political timing was a bit off, as he managed to get himself elected President at the height of a great economic boom, only to spend most of his time bailing water at the beginning of the greatest economic recession in American history. Bad luck, that.
Read my short biography of the only “traffic safety” president the U.S. ever elected over at the Eno Center for Transportation website:
This article is part of a series that Eno has organized on all of the American presidents and their manifold contributions to transportation system planning and policy development:
Enjoy the ride!
Keech Ballard 